Derb: Why We Can’t Talk About IQ

The thing to fix your attention on there, the thing that gives the game away, is the phrase “purported IQ per se.” What does it mean? Well, it means “IQ.” It’s a circumlocution—a kind of oven mitt of insulating syllablesused to handle a topic you find too hot to touch directly.

“Purported IQ per se” is how you say “IQ” when you are a liberal or a race-whipped conservative with minimal interest in the human sciences and whose intellectual tissues have absorbed the poisonous gas of Cultural Marxism to some degree.